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Theory of Literature: Semiotics of Literary Text

ННД.05

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2021/2022

1 Semester

3

PLO 4. To assess and analyze critically the vital social, individual, and professional issues and offer tactics of their solution, in difficult and unpredictable conditions, which requires the application of new approaches and forecasting. PLO 8. To assess the historical legacy and new achievements of literary studies in the field of semiotics of literary text. PLO 11. To perform a scholarly analysis of linguistic, speech, and literary material, interpret and structure it considering expedient methodological principles, and formulate summarizations based on the individually processed data. PLO 13. To explain the essence of specific linguistic issues and one’s own point of view and its justification to the experts and laypeople, in particular to individuals who are studying. PLO 15. To choose the optimal research approaches and methods of analysis for the specific linguistic and literary material.

Full-time form

To be eligible for the course students should have basic factual knowledge of the humanities, mastered the main stages and characteristics of the historical and literary process in Ukraine and the world, and understand the structure of a literary work.

The subject of study of the discipline is the sign nature of art, specifically the literary work as a unit of verbal art, the regularities of the literary process, and its exploration with the resources of applied semiotics. The discipline proposes to consider literature as a sign system, an integral part of the artistic system of culture, a way of preserving and transmitting information by using symbolic forms, as a material manifestation of cultural conventions and codes. The course appeals not only to literary studies concepts but also to hermeneutics as a doctrine of understanding, explaining, and interpreting texts in the context of the general theory of communication, as well as to the general theory of communication, the basics of communicative linguistics, structuralism and poststructuralism and theories of inter-semiotics, which are important stages in the theoretical understanding of fiction as a process of continuous semiosis.

Berger A. Sings in Contemporary Culture: An Introduction to Semiotics. Sheffield Publishing Company, 2009. Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology. London: Hutchinson, 2006.

Lecture; answer in a seminar class; participation in the discussion; abstract assignment; creative assignment; test.

The semester grade is formed by the points earned by the student in the process of mastering the material from the entire course. The total grade for the semester consists of points received for classroom work (which summarizes also the individual work on theoretical material and fiction to prepare for classroom activities: oral answers, additions, analytical assignments, and written works) and for individual work (creative assignment, abstract study of primary sources for oral and written answers).

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